The Syntax-Morphology Interface - Matthew Baerman
The Syntax-Morphology Interface - Matthew Baerman Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. This…
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The Syntax-Morphology Interface - Matthew Baerman
Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. This pioneering book provides a full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction but the morphology does not.
The implications of syncretism for the syntax-morphology interface have long been recognised: it argues either for an enriched model of feature structure (thereby preserving a dir